Diversity & Food Sovereignty
Served on trays, plates, selfs or buffets;
menus are not the same
Served on trays, plates, selfs or buffets;
menus are not the same
Catering equipments & Service concept determine the content of the plates
More than 20,000 plant species are edible, only 20 of them constitute 90% of the plants consumed.
Many equipments, little diversity
Self-service: 2 vegetables, 2 starches, 2 proteins
- Continuous operation of 4 ovens and 6 stoves (self)
- 1 refrigerated counter
- 200 trays
,- trolleys,
For floor service: add:
- Transport trolleys, covers, heating rooms,
- Bain marie, stoves and other duplicates and small equipment
In Meal trays
- Several bain-maries, 8 plate warmers, 200 cloches, (packaging
of trays)
- 14 thermal cabinets
👎 Restricted distribution and industrialization limit recipes, standardize menus (chopped steaks, nugets, salad, bread, industrial dessert compensate for the lack of diversity), shared supplies impose menus, a market escaping local agriculture
Only 1 equipment, 3x more diversity
6 DTN (48 containers)
- An economy of means and up to 6 different menus, for example:
-2 regional menus 🍗🥘
-2 Italian menus
-2 vegetarian menus 🥦
Processing qualities and distribution capacities:
The DTNs alone ensure the thermal relay (switching off the
ovens) of the 6 menus between the kitchen and the implemen-
tation of the service
Away from kitchens, indoors and outdoors.
👍Processing & distribution flexibility allow recipes to be adapted to the variability of the local and seasonal supply, to respond to various diets, to make old, satiating, economical recipes The menus depend on the creativity of the cooks and the fair price of local supplies
Billions of meals are prepared daily,
80% of the raw materials from which come from intensive cultivation and livestock farming.